Tsukuba Toastmasters Club (5814-76)
Record of #400 Meeting
Date: March 18th, 2006, Venue: Onogawa Public Hall

Presiding Officer: President TM Watanabe
Thought for the Day: TM Pang
Business Session: TM Watanabe
1. Announcement of the contestant and alternative
  for the Area 11 Contest
  Contestant: TM Noguchi
  Alternative: TM Hashida
  TM Matsushima encouraged members to help her
   as supporters in the coming Area 11 Contest.
2. Party fee
  Party fee was fixed at €4,000. The details of the party
  will be discussed later in today�fs EC meeting.
3. Announcement from Treasurer TM Negi
  He requested members to pay the following amount of money
  Club fee: €6,000 per 6months
  Party fee: €4,000 (only for members who will attend the party)
  Contest fee €1,500
Toastmaster of the Day: TM Sakamoto
   Timer: TM Kita
   Ums & Ahs Counter: TM Watanabe
   Grammarian: TM Machida
   Vote Counter: TM Matsushima

Special Feature
  (1) �gLa Marseillaise�h by TM M. Nakamura  (9�f05�h)
  (2) �hSelecting Your Topic�h from �gThe Better Speaker Series�h
                                                  by TM Kondo (8�f10�h)

Table Topic Session: TM Kaneko, �gSurprise�h
  1. Denda (1�f55�h)  4. Pang (1�f30�h)
  2. Watanabe (2�f00�h)  5. Kita (1�f36�h)
  3. M. Suzuki (2�f21�h) 6. Matsushima (1�f47�h)

Prepared Speech Session
  1. TM Ohno, The basic manual #7 Apply your skills [5-7 min]
       �gI became Grandma�h (7�f08�h)
  2. TM S. Suzuki, �gThe entertaining speaker�h manual #5 [8-10min]
      �hAfter the dinner talk (?) show�h(9�f56�h)

Evaluation Session
  General Evaluater: TM Negi
    1.TM Takahashi for TM Ohno�fs speech (3�f12�h)
    2.TM Hashidafor TM S. Suzuki�fs speech (3�f09�h)
Awards
  Best Table Topic speaker: TM Watanabe
  Best Evaluator: TM Hashida
  Best Prepared Speaker: TM Ohno and TM S. Suzuki

Guests: Mr. Yamaguchi, Ms. Terao

Attendance: TMs Sakamoto, Kita, Watanabe, M&S. Suzuki, Hashida,
Negi, Matsushima, Ohno, Kaneko, Takahashi, Pang, Kondo, Machida
M. Nakamura, Denda

Thought for the Day                     by TM Pang

In Japan, spring means starting and the turning point.
Students will finish their lower grade and starting a higher rank.
The university graduates will leave their university keeping on
their knowledge and abilities to start a new live as a member of society.
In Japan, spring means apart and getting to meet new friends.
Most salaried workers will be transferred to a new job place.
People take parties for farewell and welcome. For realizing new plans,
people have to apart from parents, brothers or sisters, old friends and
to meet fresh. All of them have a dream that is the future.
In Japan, spring means the blooming of sakura. Not only is "Sakura, Sakura"
one of the best-known folk songs of Japan, the sakura is the national
flower of Japan, from the southern, Okinawa to the northern, Hokaido
with over 400 varieties that blooming based on the temperature
throughout the country.
During the viewing of flowers, what is your goal this year? How will you
write
your self story? So give as much care to the end as the beginning.
Then there will be success.